On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: ... > Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a quick > search on the page for "mailname" and didn't get anything. Anyway, what > I really wanted to know was what function *you* thought /etc/mailname > played in OpenSMTPD because it would determine what you chose for it. > > On Exim it is used to qualify a local part without a domain name. After > I installed OpenSMTPD it seems to me that this is also what OpenSMTPD > does. In other words, if I had mailname as gmail.com, a mail I send to > tombrowder (no domain name) would go to tombrow...@gmail.com.
Brian, you may be right. I cannot find anything in the man pages, but it may have been stated during the installation of the Debian package. I'll uninstall and reinstall to see if I can capture the instructions... -Tom
